From: tgpedersen
Message: 63224
Date: 2009-02-20
> > I listed a long list of Germanic words here on Cybalist withHere it is:
> > dialectal g-/w- and g-/j- alternation (with appr. that heading),
> > but now the stupid search function can't find it. Most looked
> > like substrate words, some had FU connections. Here's a g-/j- one:
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/60884
> > if that one doesn't have Gmc. ga- ,
>
> I don't see the alternation between g- and j-, the "ice"-words all
> seem to have j-.
>
>
> > and here a G-/w- one:
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/61971
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/62983
>
> I think I've read that in words like this some linguists posit a
> *gWH which became g- in Gmc before *o but became w- elsewhere.
>